This morning, the final of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay took place in the Olympic Tokyo as part of the swimming competitions. The Russian team finished second. Alexander Krasnykh, a graduate of the Volga Region University, became the winner of the silver medal of the Olympic Games-2020 as part of our national team.
Krasny did not take part in the final, but the day before he helped the team to get into the number of finalists in the qualifying heat. In the final relay, the team of the Russian Olympic Committee performed in the following composition: Martin Malyutin, Ivan Girev, Evgeny Rylov and Mikhail Dovgalyuk.
Another graduate of the University, diver Nikita Shleikherv, paired with Evgeny Kuznetsov in synchronized diving from a three-meter springboard, took only the eighth place. The athletes claimed bronze medals, but made a mistake in the last jump and received 0 points. The final result of the Russians was 331.08 points.
Anastasia Lebedeva also failed to achieve the desired result today In the rowing competitions in the semifinal race of light doubles, Anastasia and Maria Botalova showed the fourth result. Now they will have to compete for the seventh place of the Games in the consolation final.
But badminton players-graduates of the University Sergey Sirant and Evgenia Kosetskaya completed their performances in the Olympic tournament. Sirant lost in the fight for the playoffs to Anthony Sinisuke Ginting with a score of 0:2 (12:2, 10:21). Kosetskaya lost in two games (16: 21, 16: 21) to the third racket of the world, Japanese Nozomi Okuhara
